Dwelling module

Abstract

A family dwelling-land development arrangement with a high building-to-land area ratio including a dwelling module comprising a plurality of individual and separate and spaced apart single family dwellings disposed in a substantially U-shaped configuration about an auto court with an open end adequate to accommodate passage of automobiles. The module includes a plurality of automobile shelters adjacent said dwellings and opening to the auto court to accommodate automobiles passing through the opening to the interior of the configuration.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A cluster of dwelling modules comprising at least four dwelling modules, each of said dwelling modules having a plurality of automobile shelters disposed about in an inner substantially U-shaped configuration defining an automobile court interior thereof having an open end adequate to accommodate passage of automobiles from an auto thoroughfare, said shelters being in substantial abutment to minimize the area of said automobile court, a corresponding plurality of separate and apart family residential dwellings disposed in an outer substantially U-shaped configuration adjacently circumscribing said inner U-shaped configuration, each of said dwellings being disposed adjacent one of said shelters and including front entry means adjacent the exterior of said outer U-shaped configuration, and a walkway circumscribing the exterior of said outer U-shaped configuration and communicating with said front entry means to segregate primary pedestrian access on the exterior of said outer U-shaped configuration from auto access on the interior of said inner U-shaped configuration, four of said modules being disposed adjacent one another in a quadrantical arrangement with a corner of the U-shaped configuration of each module being adjacent the center of said arrangement, the walkways of said modules abutting one another and cooperating to form common malls. 
     
     
       2. The cluster of dwelling modules according to claim 1, wherein each of said modules includes a plaza area at said corner adjacent the center of said arrangement, said plaza areas cooperating to form a common plaza at the center of said arrangement. 
     
     
       3. The cluster of dwellling modules according to claim 1, wherein the open ends of two adjacent modules of said arrangement face in the same direction and the open ends of the other two of said modules face in the opposite direction. 
     
     
       4. The cluster of dwelling modules according to claim 1, wherein for each of said modules said dwellings occupy from 25 to 35% of said module and said shelters occupy from 5 to 20% of said module. 
     
     
       5. The dwelling module according to claim 1 wherein, for each of said modules, said plurality of shelters equal six shelters, the legs of said inner U-shaped configuration each formed by at least an abutting pair of said shelters.